Gadgetory

what's up guys welcome back to Pauls hardware today's video is gonna be a little bit different because I'm looking for your feedback my basic concept here is that I want to make more videos and in order to do that I think I need to make another video in a style that's different from the ones that I usually make something that's actually a little bit simpler for me to make on a regular basis but then also hopefully something that I can do maybe like once a week or maybe once every couple weeks to give you guys a little bit more content give me the chance to actually show you guys some of the other smaller projects that I might not in the past have actually done videos on just because they were smaller and simpler ask you guys directly for feedback which I'm definitely gonna be doing right now and in a few minutes and then also just give you guys some updates on ongoing projects and stuff that I kind of have coming down the pipeline so I am using automatic settings on this camera but you know what I don't care let's start off on the garage with projects I have ongoing why can this table here never actually be clean I don't know I need to clean out that table because I have some builds that I need to do on it right now I'm organizing all of my sound equipment and that kind of stuff because I did get a few new things okay over on the side we have the Praxis wet bench I set this testbed up before I left for Computex and actually this motherboard was not originally the motherboard I was gonna use so a project coming soon is swapping that motherboard out and actually adding a water cooling loop I think what I want to do with that which could be fun is taking a lot of the water cooling stuff I have like I have some old loops and stuff up there radiators and whatnot taking these what were originally closed-loop coolers and like using the components to make a custom loop on that I might do that that could be fun anyway over here we have a pile of too much dust that I still need to get to the GTX nad extreme from gigabyte that is coming very very soon I also have gtx 1070 from ZOTAC this is an air cooled amp edition 1070 and I think I'm actually going to pit this against EVGA s I'm sorry not EVT msi is seahawk because i'll do a water-cooled vs air-cooled on that tuck back here in the corner hiding because I wasn't sure if I was able to show it yet is the gtx 960 so of course content coming on that as well I still can't talk about that yet I just can't tell you everyone go watch Kyle's rap about the NDA for that it was awesome there's arctic panther you know just sitting there I've been playing overwatch out here from time to time which is a lot of fun and I think that's all for out in the garage here's the dining room believe it or not it's not a chaotic mess there is some stuff on the table there but it's mostly clean this table over here real quick though as sort of a table of shame it's just clutter clutter and storage actually this is mainly where the dogs get fed that's the dog food and mostly this is dog stuff and everything but this I'm going to come back to so this will be my actual project for today which is a fairly simple project but this is my wife's old computer the one that's being replaced by hotbox and I'm going to be handing this down to my oldest sister or handing it up so she's older than me anyway I'll come back to that and I'm just gonna reconfigure it real quick and make sure it's okay to hand off oh my god my desk is terrible you think I would have gotten things a little bit more organized in this but no I'm not even gonna show you that anymore let's look over here look at my wife's desk look how how nice and fairly organized it is alright so first up I wanted to show you guys that yes hot box is in use has been in use for a good month now my wife has been using it she originally started out playing doom on it and now she's been playing all kinds of overwatch and she's gotten me into overwatch as well she's using my Sennheiser headset because she likes how comfortable it is and all that good stuff and that they're not closed back design anyway she has a 24 2560 by 1440 monitor there and a 1080 next to it and she actually uses this for a dual configuration so she has the gaming system over here of course hot box and then she has a work laptop and she swaps those back and forth so you might notice there's tons of cables and stuff going on back here so another project that I want to get done once hotbox is finished is do a different setup here for my wife to do it just to return a cable management back there make things a lot cleaner and everything and I think that will help out a lot the only other thing I wanted to show you guys is that yes hotbox does need some work because if you can't tell the coloration and the tubing has gone clear if you guys watch the hot box video I had two different types of dye for the for the coolant and I accidentally used both I did not intentionally use both I joked about it in the video but I put the other one in and what happened was they cancelled each other out the video what you saw at the end of the video it's it was that color and then I came up the next morning and I was like what happened to the color it just all went away it doesn't seem to be affecting cooling or anything like that and I have been keeping an eye on it the system is very stable and everything right now but yeah I definitely need to update that also the LED lights came unplugged or something like that too so anyway yes obviously obviously hopefully still some work to be done on this but fortunately I did get confirmation from ek they were super busy with the launch of the like the GTX 1080 and 1070 and our X 480 but they have followed up and they are sending me a few more parts and adapters and stuff so I can reconfigure and get stuff back the way I wanted it so there is more coming on the hotbox build you guys just gonna have to stay tuned for that ok moving on to my actual project I need to get done this morning at least before I go to Steve's Steve's having a party I'm going to Steve's party anyway this is my wife's old computer it's orange as you can maybe tell there's a theme with the computers I've built for her that's a z68 extreme for Gen 3 motherboard from asrock it is a 35 70 K in there I believe Intel Core i5 and I think it's got eight gigs maybe 16 gigs of memory and whenever I take a system an old system that's already been in use and I'm setting up as a hand-me-down there's three basic steps that I go through one is checking which hardware is going to go and which hardware is gonna stay so you might notice there used to be graphics card in here that I have pulled that out because my wife used this to game my sister who I'm gonna be handing this down to is not much of a gamer so she doesn't really need the graphics card in there granted it's gonna be a large system considering there's no graphics card for what she's using it for but hey it's gonna work so no worries there apart from that once I've gotten the hardware removed and have it set up the way I want it as far as far as Hardware goes of course I will give it a thorough cleaning so I'm going to be handling stuff like these fans which have been in use for quite some time and have gotten not terribly dusty but they definitely could use a bit of cleaning off I might just turn this is an orange LED strip I have on there and I might just pull that off of there because it's getting a little bit faded over the years and then the third phase is of course the actual data management's basically going into the operating system making sure everything's backed up that it needs to be backed up there's also an SSD and a mechanical drive in there so I'm probably going to pull the mechanical drive in there and swap it in with a something that's just already formatted and an SSD I need to load up get into Windows make sure everything's you know saved if there's anything saved on the desktop or my documents or whatever and then I think I'm just going to do the Windows 10 upgrade and force my sister to use Windows 10 should be exciting let's get to work so there you go guys some updates on the projects I have going on really excited to get my wife's system finished off actually and then also get to work on her desk setup I think that will be a fun video and I want to actually do my setup too as well after that but some that's further down the road anyway let me know of course if you like this video because that's really the point of me making this video is to get your feedback on if it's ok if I continue to make videos like this in the future if you want more content from me but you're ok with the camera work be a little bit shaky than the automatic settings and all that good stuff hit the thumbs up button to let me know with a comment down below if not why let me know that too because I'm always interested in your feedback in the meantime thanks for watching as always don't forget to subscribe if you want to see more videos or all the stuff I upcoming that I already talked about and we'll see you very soon in the next video